Novel polymers

As a result of the work of Ziegler in Germany, Natta in Italy and Pease and Roedel in the United States, the process of co-ordination polymerisation, a process related to ionic polymerisation, became of significance in the late 1950s. This process is today used in the commercial manufacture of polypropylene and polyethylene and has also been used in the laboratory for the manufacture of many novel polymers. In principle the catalyst system used governs the way in which a monomer and a growing chain approach each other and because of this it is possible to produce stereoregular polymers. 

Attempts to produce coplymers of ethylene and styrene by free radical and by conventional Ziegler-Natta catalysts systems have, over the years, not proved successful. However, in 1998 Dow announced novel polymers using a metallocene process with the intention of commercial polymerisation using a 23 000t.p.a. capacity plant starting in 1999. 

D. Moses, High quantum efficiency luminescence from a conducting polymer in solution a novel polymer laser dye. Appl. Phys. Leu. 1992, 60, 3215. 

Worldwide suppliers with bioengineering capabilities are displacing established polymers with cost-effective and higher performing plastics. An explosion of novel polymers has been made by enzymatic control. The use of enzymes for polymerization has drastically altered the landscape of polymer chemistry. Processors can request specific properties for each application as opposed to the usual making do with what is available. The supplier can deliver to the processor desired properties requested. 

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G.L. Wilkes, Synthesis of Novel Polymers with Unusual Properties by Radical Polymerization , USARO Rept, Contract DA-ARO-D-31-124-73-G27, Princeton Univ, Princeton (1974)... 

Sometimes, new values are added not only to the polymer itself, but also to the shape or physical state of the processed polymers to maximize the profit opportunity. For example, when a company develops a novel polymeric material and its manufacturing technology, the company may prefer to make their novel polymers available to customers in the form of intermediate consumer products, such as hi performance films or fibers, rather than manufacturing and selling bulk resins to industrial customers. To do so, the company should have a line of technical capabilities from polymer synthesis to consumer product manufacturing. 

Hu Y, Porco JA, Jr, Labadie JW, Gooding OW, Trost BM. Novel polymer-supported trialkylsilanes and their use in solid-phase organic synthesis. J Org Chem 1998 63 4518 1521. 

Catalysis, as soon as it was born, dealt with dimensions in the range of nanometers. However, only from the 1970s did the systematic study of properties in the nanometer regime stimulate tremendous enhancements in the preparation of new and improved materials. The manipulation of materials down to the molecular level allowed novel and unexpected properties to be revealed. This resulted in the cheap production of transportation fuels, novel polymers and plastics, more effective drugs, and many thousands of other products which are now present in our everyday life. 

M. Granstrom, Novel polymer light-emitting diode designs using poly(thiophenes), Polym. Adv. Technol., 8 424 130, 1997. 

V. Cimrova, D. Neher, M. Remmers, and I. Kminek, Blue light-emitting devices based on novel polymer blends, Adv. Mater., 10 676-680, 1998. 

These structures are well defined by conducting the polymerization in the presence of appropriate mono- and difunctional reagents. They are of considerable interest for the preparation of segmented block copolymers.24,25 For instance, the fluorinated macrodiols 21 have already been used to prepare an interesting new series of partially fluorinated segmented polyurethanes,26 and we are investigating other novel polymers that can be prepared from these intermediates. 

Refractive index measurements made by this technique are of sufficient accuracy to make this a valuable research tool in studying and characterizing the dry etch behavior of novel polymer resist materials. In situ etch rate can be measured and analyzed quickly without any prior knowledge of the polymer s physical properties. 

Wieser, C. 2004. Novel polymer electrolyte membranes for automotive applications—Requirements and benefits. Fuel Cells 4 245-250. 

More recently, Ingram et al. and Wright et al. independently tried to develop new polymer hosts with secondary structures similar to that of a liquid crystalline state, so that ion transport could occur with a higher degree of freedom in the highly oriented environments and become at least partially decoupled from the polymer segmental relaxations. Ion conductivities approaching liquidlike values have been obtained on the condition that the liquid crystalline state could be maintained. However, the incorporation of these novel polymer materials in electrochemical devices remains to be tested. 

Cabasso, I "Study of Novel Polymers and Alloys in As3nranetric and Composite Membranes," U.S. Dept, of Interior, OWRT Research and Development Report, Feb. 26, 1979. 

Application. Using the copolymer-Ig conjugate, we developed a novel polymer-based immunoassay utilizing the demixing behavior of polyNIPAAM at or above the LCST as the separation technique. 

The review first considers processing, which highlights the polymer properties necessary for successful foam production. The polymer section then explains the molecular structures that produce these properties, before considering novel polymers used for foams. The properties sections emphasise mechanical and thermal properties, while the applications section shows how these properties are used. 

Brown WM, Martin S, Rintoul MD et al. (2006) Designing novel polymers with targeted properties using the signature molecular descriptor. J Chem Inf Model 46 826-835... 

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